It’s meant to be a light and relaxing experience, where the enjoyment is in interacting with the cast of characters and witnessing new events on a daily basis that are based on a real-time day/night cycle.
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It feels like a series of fetch quests for the most part, with the core gameplay lacking the kind of variety players would normally expect. The core gameplay attempts some variety with options to fish and dig, and so it bears (totally unintended pun here) some similarities with other titles in the genre, but much of the game involves fetching and delivering items, in particular, feeding logs to a living bonfire which drives the main narrative.
Each bear has certain tasks for you to complete, and in the process of doing so you earn scout honor badges depending on the tasks you engage in, and by completing story quests you restore a sense of color and life into the island grove. There’s meant to be some karmic symbolism here, but while Cozy Grove doesn’t explain the meta-physics of its setting in great detail, it provides just enough to create intrigue, and for players to care about the various bear spirits and their quirky personalities.
The bears come in all styles and colors, including one fused with a seagull early on. Honestly, what kind of parent signs a permission slip to send their kid to a spiritual bear realm? It’s certainly a strange and unusual backdrop, but it does enough to help Cozy Grove differentiate itself from something like Animal Crossing. What immediately sets Cozy Grove apart is its basic premise and setup, where you are essentially a spirit scout looking to help rectangular bear spirits to find some sense of closure and direction on an island grove that functions as some quasi-afterlife.
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